Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Tuesday urged India to relax tariff and non-tariff barriers on Bangladeshi products for boosting bilateral trade and business.
“The tariff and non-tariff barriers are impacting Bangladesh’s exports to India,” he told Indian External Affairs Minister Ms Sushma Swaraj during a meeting in Hanoi on Monday evening.
Mr Kamal said if India creates a balanced environment considering the huge trade deficit between the two neighbouring countries, people of both countries and region will be benefited.
Mustafa Kamal met the Indian Minister Sushma Swaraj at the sideline of the inaugural ceremony of two-day long Indian Ocean Conference 2018, which started in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday.
The planning minister also urged the Indian minister to enhance investment as Bangladesh had already allocated some 1000 acres of land at Mirsarai in Chittagong for developing investment opportunities.
He also called upon the Indian External Affairs Minister to support Bangladesh to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.
“Bangladesh expressed its belief that India would continue to cooperate with Bangladesh in resolving this long-standing issue and put meaningful pressure on Myanmar so that Myanmar takes back its nationals speedily, unconditionally and in a safe, sustainable and dignified manner,” said the minister.
